Colorado Desert

noun

1. an arid region in SE California, W of the Colorado River. About 2,500 sq. mi. (6,475 sq. km).

Colorado Desert

noun

1. an arid region of SE California and NW Mexico, west of the Colorado River. Area: over 5000 sq km (2000 sq miles)

Example Sentences

In the subsequent three decades, the average the tortoise population has fallen by an average of 1% per year in locations like the Eastern Mojave and Colorado Desert recovery units.

From Salon

The proposed monument would also help safeguard the ecologically rich but vulnerable Colorado Desert bioregion.

From Los Angeles Times

Here in the remote Colorado Desert, Lopez-Padilla, 28, and volunteers from his congregation have been driving the streets — passing out food and water, sometimes ferrying people to an air-conditioned church.

From Los Angeles Times

But when they got to the festival site in the Colorado Desert, they were told Ocean had injured his ankle and the ice was being melted.

From BBC

For now, the land remains an open expanse of the Colorado Desert, where coyotes and bighorn sheep roam.

From Los Angeles Times